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What is the best way to categorize all human activity on this planet? Or as much as possible within feasible limits. That’s a much debated issue within specialized circles. Splitting it by production, consumption, stock indices, border customs, or some other method all seem to have various pros and cons. e.g. UN ISIC Rev.5 versus Continue reading Categorizing all human activity, a sectoral…
English-Prime or E-prime seems like a fascinating linguistic tool, and what better way to experiment with it then using it to look at the “Mind”. All too commonly lumped into a simplistic “conscious”/“unconscious” framework that a spectrum approach can untangle more easily. Also we skip assuming a unified “self” agent but go with a simpler Continue reading On the Nature of “Mind”: A Spectrum…
I’ve recently become intrigued by the shear elegance of Octonions, naturally encoding two quaternions, so to speak, of form (3,1) which coincides with the spacetime we all know and love. Naturally this structure is highly suggestive of deeper aspects of reality, namely the possibility of two spacetimes, ours and a “mirror” or “dark” spacetime so Continue reading Can Octonion math explain the…
The just completed SCO meeting in Tianjin released this rather interesting declaration. Here is the very long text translated into English for the convenience of readers, and I believe the first full English text posted anywhere on the Internet (There’s not even an English PDF available at the time writing!): TIANJIN DECLARATION OF THE COUNCIL Continue reading SCO Tianjin Declaration
I thought these lyrics were particularly special after coming across this song on youtube, even though I don’t understand Japanese beyond a few words, so here is the english translation: Pantalea English Lyrics: Is what dances in the full moon the feast of life? What does it pray for? What does it sing of? The Continue reading Interesting lyrics to the song ‘Pantalea’ by Akiko Shikata